LOL, I think Bob has shot too much without suppressors or hearing protection in his life. I was firing and he just kept right on talking. When I finished, he had not noticed a thing.
The first mulefoot I shot in 2011 was with a .45/70 and it managed to go right about 100 yards. We had a bugger of a time finding it. There was very little blood under the feeder where I shot him and no blood trail. We saw some weird little hoof tracks and didn't think much about it at the time, until we found the hog and realized that the weird prints were his.
Since then, I have not identified tracks where I said, "Mulefoot." They can tend to be sort of triangular and not particularly hog-like on the front feet, maybe more like a poor deer print. The rear feet look like they will produce a better track, more blocky, but I am guessing that it would probably be seen as just a poor print by Joe Hunter and not recognized as being a mulefoot.
